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HOLIDAYS AND TRAVELLING
By Realistix Solutions
http://realistixsolutions.com
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Definition
• Holidays and travelling tourism• Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or
business purposes. • Tourists are people who travel to and stay
in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four hours.
• Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2008, there were over 922 million international tourist arrivals.
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A history of tourism• Wealthy people have always traveled to distant
parts of the world.• The Romans started a tourism with their holiday
villas in the Bay of Napels.• In the 19th century, Grand Tour of Europe’s cultural
sites.• In 1845 Thomas Cook organized the first package
tour.
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Recent developments• People have more money to spend and greater
leisure time and they are also better-educated and have more sophisticated tastes.
• The developments in technology and transport infrastructure, such as jumbo jets, low-cost airlines have made many types of tourism more affordable.
• There have been a few setbacks in tourism:• Terrorist threats to tourist destinations (11th
september).• A tsunami (2004). Thousands of lives were lost.
Airbus A380 (853 passengers) Tsunami, Asia
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Tourism in the future• The tourist idustry is growing very fast and will
soon be the largest industry in the world.• Because the tourists are destroying sites some
replicas have been built (Lascaux caves – France)• Technological improvement is likely to make:
• Underwater hotels (Hydropolis in Dubai )• Space tourism
Hydropolis, Dubai
Lascaux cave paintings
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Effects of tourism• Positive:- Economic effects: It brings profit to the local and
regional area It creates new jobs (tourist guides,
souvenir sellers…)- Social & cultural effects: Developing positive attitudes
towards each other Learning about each other’s
culture and customs Reducing negative stereotypes Developing friendships Developing appreciation,
understanding, respect, and tolerance for each other’s culture
• Negative:- Environmental Effects: It destroys ecosystems and
environments Traffic jams, litter Natural areas - parks,rivers,woody
areas get polluted and destroyed Destroying sites (scratching names
into the rocks…)- Social effects More crime - tourists bring money,
bad people rob them Popular tourist destinations are
abandoned by all local residents
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Types of travelling• Explorers are people who travel in a particular continent
or country for the purpose of learning about it and to discover something new.
• Lesure travel– winter tourism– visiting family and relatives (VFR) tourism– religious tourism– educational tourism– extreme tourism (adventure tourism, backpackers)– medical tourism– express tours
Two backpackers
An explorer
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Most visited countries
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Most visited citiesRealistix solutions
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Most popular sites
The Statue of Liberty, New York
Big Ben, London
Niagara Falls, USA, Canada
The Giza Necropolis, Egypt
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Most popular sites
Colosseum in Rome, Italy Sydney Opera House, Australia
Parthenon in Athens, Greece
The Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand
The Taj Mahal, India
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Benka Pulko • Benka Pulko is a Slovenian
world traveler.• She travelled across 75
countries and seven continents on a motorcycle.
• Her journey lasted five and a half years.
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Sources
• Liz & John Soars – New Headway English Course, Oxford University Press
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism• Ehow:
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5244298_positive-negative-effects-tourism.html
• http://www.benkapulko.com/en
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Thank you for your attention!
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